Creative endeavour varies greatly in the amount of overhead (i.e. money,
manpower and organization) associated with a project which calls for a given
amount of creative work. At one extreme is the activity of an aircraft
designer, at the other that of a poet. The art of programming currently falls
much closer to the former than the latter. I believe, however, that this
situation is likely to change considerably in the next decade. The following
remarks state (perhaps overstate) the reasons for this belief.